Re: Keeping up2date with 'unstable' without beeing connected to the internet
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> > The problem is: how do I know _which_ packages are new
> > and which do I have to fetch to update my standalone mirror
> > (without keeping a second mirror at the dial-up/home-cable
> > machine).
>
> Run apt-get with the --download-only option. It won't install any
> packages on your machine, and all the new ones will be in
> /var/cache/apt/archives. (I think that should work, I've never done
> it myself.)
You could read the /usr/share/doc/apt/offline.text.gz file which describes
how to do this.
Jason
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